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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September 17, 2012

Hey family,

It has been a
long week and I'm tired today. Sorry for the shortness of the email. I just
didn't have any time last week and this week is not much better sadly. It’s
good to hear from you and sounds as if all is going well.

The week went
by kind of slow but that’s all good. We got to do service here and there
and had dinners on most nights of the week so looking back it was pretty good.
I can’t complain. We did heaps of finding early in the week and then didn't
have as much time later in the week. We met quite a few interesting people, as
you do, and got a couple of good potentials. We have several teaching
appointments set up in the coming week with people, so were excited. Oh, and I
got my temple recommend renewed at interviews with the Mission President...all
I was thinking was wow, I'm old.

Transfers are
this next week. I don’t reckon anything will change though I’ll most likely be
here with Elder Tilley for my last transfer. Next week on Friday, the 28th
he'll be getting his wisdom teeth removed which I'm sure will be a long, long
day to say the least. That’s the plan. Today we went up to Brisbane and they
worked on him for an hour and a half. He said he got checked in Fiji but that
they just had the doctor sign it as all good basically because his family
couldn't afford to pay for it. Welcome to the islands. As they say, "what’s
yours is mine and what’s mine is ours". It’s good it is getting taken care
of though.

Other than
that, not much else is going on. It looks like it will be raining this
week. That will be fun. Love you much and miss you of
course. Thanks for the support and hope things will go well for you in the
coming week. I prolly won’t get to email until next Tuesday…maybe. We'll see.
Until next week, thanks…

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Every Missionary loves a letter from a friend or family.

Mailing Address:

Elder Kiefer R. Hatch

Australia Brisbane Mission

P.O. Box 348

Hamilton

Brisbane, QLD 4007

Australia

Kiefer's is currently serving in Nerang which is part of the Gold Coast area of Queensland south of Brisbane. It is best to mail letters and (small) packages to the Mission home in Brisbane. Australian Customs opens and inspects all packages and their contents. Any non-commercially packaged food or questionable materials will be removed. I think want he would most appreciate are letters and pictures. It is best to take all letters and packages your friendly, neighborhood USPS because international mail has different regulations and costs that stateside mail. The Priority Flat-Rate options are the best. The USPS contracts all international mail through FedEx and the Flat-Rate options are the most reasonable cost-wise.

I have found that it takes about 10 days for Kiefer to receive a letter and a bit longer (depending on how long it takes in Customs) for him to receive a package.

The LDS Church also provides a "Pouch" system for single page, tri-folded letters adn requires only one US stamp. For instructions, please visit:

Kiefer's email is kiefer.hatch.@myldsmail.net. Please remember that he read his emails only once a week. Also, he has to pay to get a printed copy of emails and he has only one hour a week online. Mission rule allow him to email his immediate weekly but that is all. So don't feel neglected if he doesn't reply to your e-mail. He is not supposed to hence, this blog. Thanks!